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• Tod O’Dell leaves Knight Frank Australia

  Tod O’Dell, group director of information technology at Knight Frank Australia, has left the role and is “now looking for the next opportunity.”

• Local councils starved of money for IT

  Senior IT staff at local councils are starved of funds to replace legacy systems and are competing with business managers and councilors at the executive table who are themselves battling to meet ratepayers’ demands, according to research.

• WA looks to cut IT costs with state budget

  Approximately $110 million will be cut from the ICT budgets of a range of Western Australia government departments and agencies, with the state government looking to put $25 million of the savings into an ICT Renewal and Reform fund.

• Women CIOs more positive about analytics and IT budgets: Gartner

  Female CIOs are significantly more positive about analytics and growing IT budgets than male CIOs, but more negative about risk, a Gartner report said.

• Most IT budgets are spent on maintaining systems instead of innovating: Oracle

  When businesses are faced with the choice of maintaining the status quo or innovating, the majority tend to go with the former.

• 6 steps to boost data center power and cooling efficiency

  A study released by Stanford University professor Jonathan Koomey pegs growth in energy use among US data centers at 36 per cent from 2005 to 2010 - which is slower than some had predicted but nonetheless significant.

• How cloud computing rose from Lehman Brothers' ashes

  James Johnson, an IT veteran with 25 years' experience running Wall Street technology operations, walked into Lehman Brothers' packing-box-strewn office high in the Time-Life building in Rockefeller Center. It was November 2008. Johnson had just been named Lehman's CTO and had been given the job of operating the IT infrastructure needed to wind down the firm.

• To add value through IT, pick up the ball

  For years, going back to the days of data centers, people in technology thought their first priority was to make sure the computer systems were operational. Key statistics focused on uptime-making sure the servers, networks and applications were functioning. Meeting such targets was considered success.

• Taking business risks with your IT budget

  Are today's CIOs more innovative than they were 10 years ago?